[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2691 Referred in House (RFH)]

  2d Session
                                S. 2691


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 22, 2000

    Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the 
Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To provide further protections for the watershed of the Little Sandy 
 River as part of the Bull Run Watershed Management Unit, Oregon, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. INCLUSION OF ADDITIONAL PORTION OF THE LITTLE SANDY RIVER 
              WATERSHED IN THE BULL RUN WATERSHED MANAGEMENT UNIT, 
              OREGON.

    (a) In General.--Public Law 95-200 (16 U.S.C. 482b note) is amended 
by striking section 1 and inserting the following:

``SECTION 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF SPECIAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT UNIT; 
              DEFINITION OF SECRETARY.

    ``(a) Establishment.--
            ``(1) In general.--There is established, subject to valid 
        existing rights, a special resources management unit in the 
        State of Oregon comprising approximately 98,272 acres, as 
        depicted on a map dated May 2000, and entitled `Bull Run 
        Watershed Management Unit'.
            ``(2) Map.--The map described in paragraph (1) shall be on 
        file and available for public inspection in the offices of the 
        Regional Forester-Pacific Northwest Region, Forest Service, 
        Department of Agriculture, and in the offices of the State 
        Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the 
        Interior.
            ``(3) Boundary adjustments.--Minor adjustments in the 
        boundaries of the unit may be made from time to time by the 
        Secretary after consultation with the city and appropriate 
        public notice and hearings.
    ``(b) Definition of Secretary.--In this Act, the term `Secretary' 
means--
            ``(1) with respect to land administered by the Secretary of 
        Agriculture, the Secretary of Agriculture; and
            ``(2) with respect to land administered by the Secretary of 
        the Interior, the Secretary of the Interior.''.
    (b) Conforming and Technical Amendments.--
            (1) Secretary.--Public Law 95-200 (16 U.S.C. 482b note) is 
        amended by striking ``Secretary of Agriculture'' each place it 
        appears (except subsection (b) of section 1, as added by 
        subsection (a), and except in the amendments made by paragraph 
        (2)) and inserting ``Secretary''.
            (2) Applicable law.--
                    (A) In general.--Section 2(a) of Public Law 95-200 
                (16 U.S.C. 482b note) is amended by striking 
                ``applicable to National Forest System lands'' and 
                inserting ``applicable to National Forest System land 
                (in the case of land administered by the Secretary of 
                Agriculture) or applicable to land under the 
                administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land 
                Management (in the case of land administered by the 
                Secretary of the Interior)''.
                    (B) Management plans.--The first sentence of 
                section 2(c) of Public Law 95-200 (16 U.S.C. 482b note) 
                is amended--
                            (i) by striking ``subsection (a) and (b)'' 
                        and inserting ``subsections (a) and (b)''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``, through the 
                        maintenance'' and inserting ``(in the case of 
                        land administered by the Secretary of 
                        Agriculture) or section 202 of the Federal Land 
                        Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 
                        1712) (in the case of land administered by the 
                        Secretary of the Interior), through the 
                        maintenance''.

SEC. 2. MANAGEMENT.

    (a) Timber Harvesting Restrictions.--Section 2(b) of Public Law 95-
200 (16 U.S.C. 482b note) is amended by striking paragraph (1) and 
inserting the following:
            ``(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary 
        shall prohibit the cutting of trees on Federal land in the 
        entire unit, as designated in section 1 and depicted on the map 
        referred to in that section.''.
    (b) Repeal of Management Exception.--The Oregon Resource 
Conservation Act of 1996 (division B of Public Law 104-208) is amended 
by striking section 606 (110 Stat. 3009-543).
    (c) Repeal of Duplicative Enactment.--Section 1026 of division I of 
the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 (Public Law 
104-333; 110 Stat. 4228) and the amendments made by that section are 
repealed.
    (d) Water Rights.--Nothing in this section strengthens, diminishes, 
or has any other effect on water rights held by any person or entity.

SEC. 3. LAND RECLASSIFICATION.

    (a) Within 6 months of the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior shall identify any Oregon and 
California Railroad lands (O&C lands) subject to the distribution 
provision of the Act of August 28, 1937 (chapter 876, title II, 50 
Stat. 875; 43 U.S.C. sec. 1181f) within the boundary of the special 
resources management area described in section 1 of this Act.
    (b) Within 18 months of the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall identify public domain lands within the 
Medford, Roseburg, Eugene, Salem and Coos Bay Districts and the Klamath 
Resource Area of the Lakeview District of the Bureau of Land Management 
approximately equal in size and condition as those lands identified in 
subsection (a) but not subject to the Act of August 28, 1937 (chapter 
876, title II, 50 Stat. 875; 43 U.S.C. sec. 1181a-f). For purposes of 
this subsection, ``public domain lands'' shall have the meaning given 
the term ``public lands'' in section 103 of the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702), but excluding therefrom any 
lands managed pursuant to the Act of August 28, 1937 (chapter 876, 
title II, 50 Stat. 875; 43 U.S.C. 1181a-f).
    (c) Within 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall submit to Congress and publish in the 
Federal Register a map or maps identifying those public domain lands 
pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section. After an 
opportunity for public comment, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
complete an administrative land reclassification such that those lands 
identified pursuant to subsection (a) become public domain lands not 
subject to the distribution provision of the Act of August 28, 1937 
(chapter 876, title II, 50 Stat. 875; 43 U.S.C. Sec. 1181f) and those 
lands identified pursuant to subsection (b) become Oregon and 
California Railroad lands (O&C lands) subject to the Act of August 28, 
1937 (chapter 876, title II, 50 Stat. 875; 43 U.S.C. 1181a-f).

SEC. 4. ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION.

    (a) In General.--In order to further the purposes of this Act, 
there is hereby authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 under the 
provisions of section 323 of the FY 1999 Interior Appropriations Act 
(P.L. 105-277) for Clackamas County, Oregon, for watershed restoration, 
except timber extraction, that protects or enhances water quality or 
relates to the recovery of species listed pursuant to the Endangered 
Species Act (P.L. 93-205) near the Bull Run Management Unit.

            Passed the Senate October 5 (legislative day, September 
      22), 2000.

            Attest:

                                                    GARY SISCO,

                                                             Secretary.